Performances of Plans for Future Operas

Plans for Future Operas

Münchener Biennale

18:00, Friday 13 May 2022
10:00, Sunday 15 May 2022
HochX (external link)
Entenbachstraße 37
81541 München
Germany

The Norwegian composer and author Øyvind Torvund creates plans for future operas and it seems extremely unrealistic that they will ever be completed. It is a presentation of numerous fragments of ideas, which all spite the laws of physics and acoustics. The soprano Juliet Fraser (external link) and pianist Mark Knoop are on the stage. They sing and play the Plans for future operas and simultaneously find themselves confronted with an abundance of projected drawings, which Torvund uses to indicate possible visualizations of future operas. Here he is examining communication phenomena, in particular those that are spatially and temporally askew. How do you converse when you aren’t in the same dimension? What kind of friendships are these that develop and are strengthened beyond the general and special relativity theories? With Torvund this is an open field where, among other things, animals and sculptures sing romantic melodies.

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Plans for Future Operas

Borealis Festival

14:00, Saturday 18 March 2023
18:00, Saturday 18 March 2023
Åsane kulturhus
Åsane Senter 52
5116 Ulset Bergen
Norway

Part of his ongoing series of Plans for Future… works, this staged piece for voice and keyboards is a collection of fragments of ideas, fantastical scenarious that pay no heed to the laws of physics and acoustics. Written for soprano Juliet Fraser (external link) and pianist Mark Knoop, the performance unfolds in front of an abundance of projected drawings, handmade visualisations of Øyvind’s fantasy opera worlds.

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Plans for Future Operas

MaerzMusik

19:30, Tuesday 21 March 2023
Haus der Berliner Festspiele (external link)
Schaperstraße 24
Wilmersdorf Berlin
Germany

Part of his ongoing series of Plans for Future… works, this staged piece for voice and keyboards is a collection of fragments of ideas, fantastical scenarious that pay no heed to the laws of physics and acoustics. Written for soprano Juliet Fraser (external link) and pianist Mark Knoop, the performance unfolds in front of an abundance of projected drawings, handmade visualisations of Øyvind’s fantasy opera worlds.

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Methods and Process

Darmstädter Ferienkurse Festival

19:30, Sunday 13 August 2023
Orangerie Darmstadt
Bessunger Straße 44
64285 Darmstadt
Germany

Sharing a double recital (external link) with Elaine Mitchener, Juliet Fraser (external link) and Mark Knoop present Torvund’s imaginative and thought-provoking work.

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